Wonderland meets the communist manifesto.Book IWhere can you run away to at 45? Ephine, a middle-aged, peri-menopausal, empty-nester stereotype of disenchantment screams at her energy-vampire co-workers, sets off the fire alarm, and quits her soul-sucking office job in cinematic defiance. Reclaiming her rebellious, teenage spark, she squats in an abandoned church and climbs on a new man until she falls through a door to follow Alice, Anya and Simone as they search for

For her warmth, the vampire Celeste is cast from her coven. For her passion, the werewolf Viszléna is exiled from her pack. When these two outcasts - and ancestral enemies - are forced into a tenuous alliance to survive the hunters stalking their steps, they find an unexpected solace in their shared solitude. But as whispered confessions and shared danger ignite a forbidden desire, they must decide if the home they are building in each other is a sanctuary, or a trap that will lead to thei...

For the solitary witch Birute, life is a careful balance of herbs and wards, designed to keep the world at bay. That fragile peace is shattered when Khulan, a desperate creature of fire and shadow, collapses on her doorstep, hunted by the hounds of Hell and a cruel master she disobeyed. Sanctuary comes at a price: an alliance of opposing magics and a trust that feels perilous. But the pact they forge against the encroaching darkness ignites a forbidden passion, a connection that could eith...

Ukrainka is the poignant and compelling story of Zorya Stelma, a young woman from a small village in Ukraine, born during the final years of the Soviet Union. Growing up amidst the struggles of a newly independent Ukraine, she longed for a life beyond the confines of her rural surroundings, dreaming of the vast and mysterious world that awaited her.Years later, we find Zorya in the bustling metropolis of Hong Kong, having traveled there to meet a man she met online...

Ukrainka is the poignant and compelling story of Zorya Stelma, a young woman from a small village in Ukraine, born during the final years of the Soviet Union. Growing up amidst the struggles of a newly independent Ukraine, she longed for a life beyond the confines of her rural surroundings, dreaming of the vast and mysterious world that awaited her.Years later, we find Zorya in the bustling metropolis of Hong Kong, having traveled there to meet a man she met online...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about • "Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny."—The GuardianA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, TIME, NPR, Oprah Daily, PeopleBlandine isn't like the other residents of her building.An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A wo...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole comes a spellbinding paranormal romance set in the Immortals After Dark universe: the story of a demon king trapped by an enchantress for her wanton purposes—and the scorching aftermath of him turning the tables and claiming her as his captive—now with a stunning new cover!For centuries, Rydstrom, fallen demon king of the Rage Demons, has fought to seize his crown, never relenting—until he is tricked i...

The Nameless Dwarf awakens from a year-long slumber, tortured by memories of slaughter. He has become an outcast, a butcher, the most reviled of dwarven kind.Meanwhile, forces of unimaginable destruction coalesce around the mountain fortress of a mad sorcerer, and the philosopher Aristodeus assembles a team of four unlikely heroes for a last desperate attempt to avert the destruction of all things:A pious knight with a wavering faith;An assassin wit...

'These events, the persecution of my people, have become part of the collection of facts that people now call "history". I lived these facts every day. They are part of my memory.'In March 1939, seven-year-old Eva Weiss's innocence was shattered by Germany's invasion of her homeland, Slovakia. Over the next five years, as the Nazi persecution of Europe's Jews gathered momentum, Eva's parents were forced to send their children into hiding, but she and her...

DARKLY HILARIOUS AND SEARINGLY RELEVANT, THE RABBIT HUTCH IS A POWERFUL PORTRAIT OF 21st CENTURY AMERICA, SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE UNFORGETTABLE BLANDINEWinner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2022 * Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction 2022'Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny' ObserverVacca Vale, Indiana: recently voted number 1 on Ne...

She’d left him! And on their wedding day, no less! Stefan Kozlov couldn’t believe that the woman he’d married had disappeared only hours after exchanging their vows! After months of happy courting, interspersed with cold showers as he forced them to wait for their wedding night, Livia had left without explanation. Stefan was angry and confused, but still determined to reunite and consummate their relationship. Even if Livia wouldn’t have him, her mother’s medical emergency still made it cr...

A remarkable memoir of living in the Soviet Union and working as a literary translator.In the early twentieth century, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when she was thirteen, her parents moved to the USSR—where Lungina became witness to many of the era's greatest upheavals.Exiled during World War II, dragged to KGB headquarters to report on her friends, and subjected to her n...